Yast software management just quits - Suse

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management just goes away a few seconds after selecting the 'accept'.
There are no errors logged anywhere I have looked. I have tried
the 'repair' from the ...

Yast software management just quits

Using a relatively new install of Open SUSE 10.3, I find that Software
management just goes away a few seconds after selecting the 'accept'.
There are no errors logged anywhere I have looked. I have tried
the 'repair' from the installation DVD, as well as rebuilding the RPM
database, deleting zypp.db and refreshing it.( not in that order )

If I had a real error message, I could do a better search. I have found
some indication of others with this problem, but there is nothing
recommended that has worked for me so far. Please don't suggest to
re-install from scratch, that's for 'toy' OS's.

Thanks,
Freddy

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Re: Yast software management just quits

Hello

On Sun, 11 May 2008 21:04:51 -0400, Freddy1X wrote:
> Using a relatively new install of Open SUSE 10.3, I find that Software
> management just goes away a few seconds after selecting the 'accept'.
> There are no errors logged anywhere I have looked. I have tried the
> 'repair' from the installation DVD, as well as rebuilding the RPM
> database, deleting zypp.db and refreshing it.( not in that order )
>
> If I had a real error message, I could do a better search. I have found
> some indication of others with this problem, but there is nothing
> recommended that has worked for me so far. Please don't suggest to
> re-install from scratch, that's for 'toy' OS's.
>
> Thanks,
> Freddy

You could try running yast from a terminal as some errors do not have
graphical messages but are placed in the terminal that yast is run from.

Regards,

Yoda

Re: Yast software management just quits

Yoda wrote:
> Hello
>
> On Sun, 11 May 2008 21:04:51 -0400, Freddy1X wrote:
>
>> Using a relatively new install of Open SUSE 10.3, I find that Software
>> management just goes away a few seconds after selecting the 'accept'.
>> There are no errors logged anywhere I have looked. I have tried the
>> 'repair' from the installation DVD, as well as rebuilding the RPM
>> database, deleting zypp.db and refreshing it.( not in that order )
>>
>> If I had a real error message, I could do a better search. I have found
>> some indication of others with this problem, but there is nothing
>> recommended that has worked for me so far. Please don't suggest to
>> re-install from scratch, that's for 'toy' OS's.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Freddy
>
> You could try running yast from a terminal as some errors do not have
> graphical messages but are placed in the terminal that yast is run from.
>
> Regards,
>
> Yoda

Thanks for your suggestion. Why didn't I try that yesterday?

YAST, the novel, runs the software install through to completion without
error( Thankyou sir, may I have another! ) YAST, the movie, still quits
with no sigh of error. Does YAST maintain it's own logs?

Freddy,
annoyed, but getting it done.

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no climbing

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Re: Yast software management just quits

Hello

On Tue, 13 May 2008 00:29:04 -0400, Freddy1X wrote:

> YAST, the novel, runs the software install through to completion without
> error( Thankyou sir, may I have another! ) YAST, the movie, still quits
> with no sigh of error. Does YAST maintain it's own logs?
>
> Freddy,
> annoyed, but getting it done.

There seem to be fairly comprehensive logs at /var/log/YaST2/y2log
(Most system programs' logs are in /var/log for future reference)